Astrology Forecast for October 14 – 20, 2013
Look at everything as lightening your load and emboldening you, even (especially) if you don’t welcome the development. You’ll be glad, ultimately, when next month’s Scorpio New Moon solar eclipse catapults you forward. (The less you’re carrying, the easier you’ll fly.) More’s in my mooncast, which will be posted by Thursday.
Throughout all this, two valuable tools are at your disposal. The first is the shift in impulses to sensible, practical strategies and action. This comes from Mars, ruler of our drive as well as the lunar eclipse, moving on Monday into Virgo, the fix-it sector of the zodiac. While hearts are bursting into flame, the guy that has to fulfill their orders will be taking a slow, step-by-step approach in carrying them out.
The second is the superb perception that’s for the having if you’ll trust your inside eyes and ears. Mercury, the planet of our information and traffic flow, is treading water in intense, secretive, power- and monster-laden Scorpio. By Saturday he, and all he rules, will feel motionless as he slows to turn retrograde at the beginning of next week.
Painstaking action meets slow-moving communication and travel. Hmm. Well, in the midst of eruptions and changes, this combination benefits you. It clears your field of vision. Movement muddies water, while stillness allows silt to drift to the bottom. The combination also encourages stepping outside of time and letting your feet, hands, mind and words go to the right, sure place as you navigate this exciting week.
Do rely on radar, sonar and non-empirical perceptions over the weekend. Mars is opposing the least grounded influence in the sky, Neptune. Objects in mirror are closer than they look. Or further. Or not what they appear to be. Same with motivations.
You get the idea.
Monday: The predawn hours stirred sensitivity to and insecurity about the upheaval you’re witnessing, undergoing and foreseeing. They leave you longing to do something to still the feelings, but you’re oddly powerless to do much of anything. Instead, observe, strategize and be open to inspiration.
